CMS Language

Something about how langugae is important.

(maybe have some anchors for the alphabet? )

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Abolition 

Archive 

  • Saidiya Hartman: Archive is inseparable from power. “How does one revisit the scene of subjection without replicating the [grammar of] violence?”

Care 

  • Hobart and Kneese (2020)“Radical Care”: “care that can radically remake worlds that exceed those offered by the neoliberal or postneoliberal state”

Curation

Decolonization 

  • Tuck and Yang (2012): Decolonisation is not a metaphor. It is unsettling. It is not reconciliation. It upholds an ethic of incommensurability and aims to relinquish settler and colonial futurity. “It is an elsewhere.” 
  • Laura Harjo (2019): Decolonizing community consists of decentering focus from Western, settler colonial practices and re-centering local epistemologies and belief systems.

Digitization

Dignity 

Embodiment 

Fragments

Futurity

  • Laura Harjo (2019): Acts of futurity include embodiment and practising embodied knowledge, time-bending, living, speaking language, identifying, remembering one another (relationality), land recognition. Methodologies include flexibility and change according to community needs and uses; multiple reiterations of knowledge; planning, research and organising.   

Gendering /Ungendering  

  • (H. Spiller...queers studies not sure who to site) 

Haunting 

  • Avery Gordon: 

Healing 

Human Remains (how to speak respectfully of and name)

  • Jessica Marie Johnson (2020): Null values 

Memorialization 

Racializing / racecraft 

  • Jemima Pierre (2012) 
  • John Jackson 

Repair

  • Deborah Thomas (2019): Repair rather than reparations: A shift in orientation from seeking justice through naming and exposure of secrets and articulation of causality that reparations centralised to affectability. Repair is “practice-orientated and quotidian; it is non-eventful and deeply historical and relational”. It demands an active listening, a mutual recognizing, an acknowledging of complicity at all levels. (Building on Diane Nelson 2015) 

Reparations, Repatriation, Restitution

  • Calls for repair instead of reparations (Deborah Thomas, Nelson 2015)
  • David Scott 

Post-Museum 

  • (abolition of museums)  
  • The abolition of museums of African Art (Patrice Nganang) 

  • Working against museumification (Mudimbe, Alirio Karina)

Space 

  • Land
  • Land back

Silences 

  • Saidiya Hartman (2008): Use of “Critical Fabulation” as a method to attend to silences and questions like “How does one tell impossible stories?” How does one speak of unrecoverable pasts? 
  • Marisa J. Fuentes 
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